Number Of Newspapers Research Articles

Why Is Iran Experiencing Migration and Brain Drain to Canada?

Determining the driving factors of migration and brain drain helps Iranian policy makers to prevent migration and brain drain. This study considers two models of migration and brain drain from Iran to Canada. Variables include the number of educated and non-educated migrants, real Iranian National Income, the number of university students, the number of newspapers and periodicals, regime changes and war, and the Canadian unemployment rate from 1970 to 2000. The results of applying a Vector Autoregressive approach support the notion that lagged values of brain drain and migration are major driving factors of migration and brain drain from Iran to Canada.

Anyone Monitoring? How Vanishing Local Newspapers Affect Firmss Debt Structure

We analyze how information asymmetry affects the choice between public and private debt. Since the early 2000s, the number of newspapers and journalists rapidly declines in the U.S., leading to less local monitoring and more information asymmetry. Coverage by local newspapers is especially relevant for the monitoring of small firms and those with weak analyst or nationwide press coverage. Exploiting staggered shocks to local newspapers in a difference-in-differences setting, we show that treated firms rely less on public debt if local monitoring slumps. Rather, bonds are substituted by loans from banks, which possess a monitoring advantage in case of high information asymmetry. For identification, we rely on local newspaper shocks due to non-local reasons, local matching, and size-corrected treatment measures.

Digital newspaper preservation through collaboration

Purpose The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) supports newspaper preservation and access for any title in Texas, from any date, any location and representing any community. As an active member of the Texas Press Association, TDNP also supports large-scale preservation of born-digital newspaper PDF issues for member publishers. This paper aims to explore how the early days of TDNP built a strong foundation of collaboration and support for large-scale preservation projects, including support for preserving a state press association PDF newspaper collection. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a case study of a collaborative endeavor to create a large-scale, statewide digital newspaper preservation hub in Texas. This paper details how individual partnerships led to new and larger partnerships. Figures and tables represent numbers of partner institutions served, numbers of newspapers preserved and screenshots of how these items appear within collections on the digital repository environment of The Portal to Texas History. This paper concludes with recommendations for groups interested in developing their own collaborative projects. Findings As a case study, the data explored include numbers of partnering institutions, materials contributed by partnering institutions and how these numbers help to forward the TDNP agenda. Practical Implications The final recommendations are lessons learned through collaboration, and the implications are real-world advice from the partners developed through the TDNP. Originality/value Hosting over 3.25 million pages of newspapers, the TDNP has become an enormous hub of newspaper preservation in Texas, and it is unique in the numbers of partners it supports and the numbers of pages it is able to host for free access via The Portal to Texas History. This paper is intended to help other groups across the world build their own collaborative preservation efforts, and it offers pragmatic advice derived from hands-on experience.

Shattered Minds: Madmen on the Railways, 1860–80

Scholars have long pointed to stories of death and disaster on the railways as proof of profound Victorian anxieties about technology. And yet the traumatic crash was not the only anxiety revealed by sensational railway stories. In the 1860s, a surprising number of newspaper accounts emerged telling tales of ordinary men losing their minds on the railways. These stories were told and retold across the periodical press, exaggerating both the extent of the problem and the severity of the danger for the everyday traveller. Analysing a broad range of press accounts and government policy, this article traces a moral panic in the making. These stories reveal a great concern about the seeming fragility of the male mind when exposed to the modern, industrial world. As this article demonstrates, fears of madness were not limited to Lunacy Commissioners and alienists; they were in fact a staple of popular culture. If a railway journey was all it took to drive a seemingly sane man to madness, what did that say about...

Europe’s rebirth begins with research

Scientists from different European countries have written an open letter to both national and international policy makers as well to all citizens across Europe. The open letter stresses that, despite marked heterogeneity in the situation of scientific research in their respective countries, there are strong similarities in the destructive policies on research and development being followed. This critical analysis, highlighted in Nature and simultaneously published in a number of newspapers across Europe, is a wake-up call to policy makers to correct their course, and to researchers and citizens to defend the essential role of science in society.

Effects of Taxes and Subsidies on Media Services

We start out reviewing the justification for press subsidies. The social value of journalism can be larger than what the newspapers are able to extract because of knowledge externalities, public good characteristics of investigative journalism and nonappropriability of consumer surplus. A free market will then underinvest in journalism. Problems related to economies of scale and scope further imply that the number of newspapers and their circulations may be too small, while advertising can give newspapers too strong incentives to aim for the mass market. According to the media economics literature, a preferential VAT regime provides higher differentiation incentives for existing newspapers, while a tax deduction for editorial expenses is well suited to increase journalistic investments. Micro economic theory further indicates that fixed transfers is the most efficient instrument to reduce entry barriers and avoid newspaper mortality, and that a subsidy per copy sold will increase circulation. We end the article by summarizing empirical evidence on the effects of media support.

En tierra hostil: la prensa diaria republicana en las Islas Baleares durante la restauración canovista (1879-1894)

In spite of an obvious social, political and cultural predominance of the conservative sectors linked to the Canovist Restoration's parties' shifting, in the Balearic Islands the republicanism got to have their own expression platforms, among which stood up a certain number of newspapers edited in Palma and Port Mahon. These papers were closely related to the republican parties of the moment and they spread cultural politics which had in common their lay and rationalist nature, as well as the fact of being more or less concerned about the social matters and about the Spanish centralist structure. They also insisted on the economic modernization and the educational development. Among the intellectuals who joined those journalist initiatives we find relevant personages such as Joaquim Fiol, Benet Pons i Fabregues, Joaquim Quetglas or Joan Baptista Ensenyat. Very soon they collided with the imprecise limits that, in fact, were established by the Restoration's authorities and by the pressure of the most conservative mass media and, more importantly, of the clerical ones. Nonetheless, they knew how to reinvent themselves again and again, offering a very different image from the typical «calm island» that was widespread some years later by Santiago Rusinol.

Cursory Look at Types of Newspapers' Contents on Political Crisis Situations in Nigeria

Newspapers are seemingly synonymous with news stories, most interestingly, during political crisis situations, anywhere in the world. However, there exist other types of newspapers’ contents employable in any newspapers’ coverage of issues or events. This paper therefore seeks to determine the major types of newspapers’ contents on political crisis situations in Nigeria; and ascertain the extent to which news stories are higher than other types of newspapers’ contents on political crisis situations in Nigeria. The media dependency theory frames the study, while the content analysis research design via coding sheet was adopted as the study design towards obtaining the needed primary data. The study concludes that newspapers in Nigeria are grossly but surprisingly lacking in editorials on political crisis situations; news stories are consistently the major type of newspapers’ content on political issues or events; there is a significant difference between the newspapers contents that are news stories and other types of content; the three major types of newspapers’ coverage of the selected political crisis situations that were studied are news stories; letters/text-to-the-editor; and features. However, there is no significant difference between the numbers of newspapers’ news stories between each political crisis situations studied. Recommendations include: an improved interest in other types of newspapers’ content in order to inculcate versatility which may help towards public opinion formation, especially, during political crisis situations; also newspaper editors should and must considered the voice of the newspapers (editorials) as a major or main stay of newspapers during, but not just political crisis situations. Key terms: Newspapers’ contents; Political crisis

Katibs and computers: innovation and ideology in the Urdu newspaper revival

In 1993, the prognosis for Urdu newspapers in north India was dismal. The readership was aging and dwindling as the new generation learned Hindi in Devanagiri script. Urdu calligraphers (katibs) were not passing their skills on to a new generation and writers skilled in Urdu were becoming increasingly hard to find. Fifteen years later, Delhi is home to a prosperous and expanding Urdu press. The number of newspapers had tripled, circulations were often higher than they had been in the past, profits were up and the atmosphere at Delhi's major Urdu newspapers was upbeat. A large part of the explanation lies in the intersection of language ideologies and new writing technologies. On the one hand, Urdu indexes crucial politically urgent populations, leading to a renewed interest in it from many sectors. On the other hand, new more flexible technologies allowed the retiring katibs to be replaced by computer typesetting that strongly resembles north Indian calligraphic styles and new software allows an entire daily newspaper to be assembled and sent to press using a single laptop. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in 1993 and 2008 at some of New Delhi's Urdu dailies and interviews with several editors, this article describes the mutual influences of Urdu language ideologies about Muslim identity and technological innovation in the revival of the Urdu daily.

Conferences and Conclusions at the Year's Close

As we head towards the end of the year, it is a good time to reflect back on the most important stories and developments of the last twelve months, particularly in the light of the recent conference held by the Society for Neuroscience, which clearly demonstrated some of the ways in which the field is changing and growing. At the same time, our thoughts may also turn towards the year ahead and the new questions and breakthroughs that it may bring. The Year in Review Quantum neuroscience has generated some intriguing results in 2013, and it has also expanded into the public consciousness, with stories on quantum effects in nature being publicized by a number of newspapers. NeuroQuantology has itself published some interesting work over the course of the year, including the special supplement on Everett's Quantum Mechanics, and articles on neurophilosophy, consciousness and the quantum model of reality. The range of topics covered in NeuroQuantology has been vast, and with such diverse work going on, it is hardly surprising that quantum biology is becoming a term that a growing number of people are learning to recognize. Neuroscience - 2013 The year 2013 has produced some interesting and important advances in the fields of neuroscience and quantum biology, many of which fell under discussion during the Neuroscience 2013 conference, which was held between November 9 and 13 in San Diego, California. The conference, which was organized by the Society for Neuroscience, attracted more than 30,000 attendees from across the globe, making it one of the largest neuroscience meetings in the world. Among the research stories from the conference that made the biggest impact, particularly in the mainstream media, was the work conducted on the neuroscience of drug addiction. Findings presented at the conference included work into the use of magnetic stimulation to enable people to quit smoking, and stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus of rats to reduce their appetite for heroin. Other researchers had focused on the motivation of addicts and the long-term effects of vicodin use and other addictive substances. Drug abuse was described as causing improper regulation of the stress response in the brain, potentially increasing the desire to continue taking drugs, while individuals who had experienced damage to the insula were found to be less prone to gambling addiction. Other highlights of the conference included a lecture on the relationship between neuroscience and society, given by the president of Pixar, Ed Catmull, and the Symposium on Creativity, in which artists and scientists came together to discuss how neuroscience can help us to understand the creative process. The conference also gave attendees the chance to look forward and consider how the field of neuroscience is changing, with presentations on the new brain initiatives being created in both the United States and Europe, and a special series of lectures on the idea of creating a map of the entire network of cells making up the brain. Quantum Biology at Neuroscience - 2013 The broad focus of the conference enabled presenters to cover a wide range of topics in neuroscience, and although the majority of the work was dedicated to more traditional views of neuroscience, there were some presentations that explored quantum effects in the brain and in experimental methods, as well as other emerging approaches to neuroscience. The use of quantum dots was discussed by several research teams, indicating that this type of technology is becoming more widespread within neuroscience, although the study of quantum effects in the brain was not common among the studies presented at the meeting. As quantum neuroscience continues to produce the types of results that have been reported in Neuroquantology and elsewhere during the last year, we may hope to see more presentations on quantum effects in the brain being made at these mainstream neuroscience events, rather than being restricted to the more specialized meetings targeted at quantum biologists. Neuroscience - 2014 Looking back over the last year, it is clear that some important advances have been made in neuroscience and quantum biology, many of which were presented at the Society of Neuroscience's conference, but there are still many more questions left unanswered for us to puzzle over in 2014 and beyond. The increasing familiarity of neuroscientists with quantum ideas, particularly in the form of the use of quantum dots and similar technologies, may help to increase interest in the field over the next year, and quantum biology could well be better represented at next year's Society of Neuroscience meeting, which will be held between November 15 and 19 in Washington DC.

In the media: the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient

The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was designed to allow people with a terminal illness to die with dignity. However, allegations have been made that people may have been placed on the LCP without their consent or knowledge, and sinister motives for doing so were quoted in a number of newspapers. Here Annette Davies discusses these accusations.

Book review: Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Political Biography, by Gregor Gall

Gregor Gall Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero? A Pofitical Biography, Welsh Academic Press: Cardiff, 384 pp: 9781860571190, 25 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Tommy Sheridan was one of the best-known far-left political leaders of modern times, and for a period of about ten years, from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, he was probably one of the most influential. Yet in the space of just a few years he moved from a seat in the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood to a cell in the Scottish prison at Barlinnie. Meanwhile, the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) that he had helped to create and develop underwent an acrimonious and enormously damaging split from which it has yet to recover. The story of Sheridan's rise and fall is therefore important for all those interested in the creation of a popular left-wing movement that can mobilise large-scale resistance against economic austerity. Because Sheridan is such a contentious figure in Scottish labour politics, any biography will be thoroughly dissected by his friends and enemies alike. Gregor Gall knew Sheridan through working with him in the SSP, and he was therefore able to interview him as well as members of his family and close friends. His book is based partly on these 28 interviews with key informants, often lasting as long as three hours, as well as on SSP documents and publications and a substantial number of newspaper and magazine articles. The events depicted in the book are therefore thoroughly documented and referenced in almost 70 pages of footnotes, within a text of 375 pages. Gall's own view is that the News of the Worm claims about Sheridan's sexual activities were largely accurate; that Sheridan's decision to sue the paper was reckless in the extreme; and that his subsequent conviction for perjury was sound. Nonetheless, he is scrupulous in presenting rival interpretations of key events, not least those from Sheridan himself and his key supporters. The book begins with the development of Sheridan's world view and its central focus on mobilising against injustice, particularly as it affected local people. He joined the Militant Tendency whilst a university student, declaring that he preferred to work with fellow socialists inside the Labour Party rather than standing outside like the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) or the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP). He came to national prominence through his leading role in the Anti-Poll Tax Federation, an organisation that ran a highly successful campaign against a deeply unpopular tax. What Sheridan realised in the course of this campaign was that he was a highly effective and charismatic orator, capable of inspiring tremendous loyalty amongst his growing number of supporters. However the Federation's support for illegal tactics such as non-payment and its control by Militant were more than enough to antagonise the rightward moving leadership of the Labour Party. The expulsions of Militant activists that began in 1982 under Michael Foot's leadership escalated significantly under Neil Kinnock, and Sheridan was one of a growing number of Militant supporters expelled in the late-1980s. The comprehensive assault on Militant called into question its long-standing policy of deep entry into the Labour Party, and paved the way for the 1991 'open turn' into an independent political party, a policy first tried out in Scotland and firmly backed by Sheridan. …

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

This paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993–2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the number of newspapers, we show that newspaper entry increases turnout in municipal elections, the reelection probability of the incumbent mayor, and the efficiency of the municipal government. We do not find any effect on the selection of politicians. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first newspaper entry. (JEL D72, L11, L82)

Meet the Press: How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

This paper uses an original dataset covering the presence of local news in medium-large Italian cities in the period 1993-2010 to evaluate the effects of newspaper entry and exit on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. Exploiting discrete changes in the number of newspapers, we show that newspaper entry increases turnout in municipal elections, the probability of the incumbent mayor being reelected, and the efficiency of the municipal government. We do not find any effect on the selection of politicians. Competition plays a relevant role, as the effects are not limited to the first newspaper entry.

Venezuelan Political Thinking as Seen in the 19th – Century Newspapers

The beginnings of Venezuelan press were inevitably linked to national political events. This medium of expression and information has become the most expeditious vehicle to convey the modernist thought. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopedia have had positive impact positive on the Spanish American Colonies generating numerous independence movements that will shape a new political, economic, social and cultural order, thus becoming independent republics. Ideas of liberty, fraternity, equality, sovereignty, citizenship, liberalism, constitutional order, federalism, confederation, positivism, and nationalism have shaped during the Venezuelan nineteenth century a complex political‑ ideological network that gives birth to a peculiar way of thinking. Through the creation and operation of a considerable number of newspapers and magazines, these ideas were gradually consolidated and entrenched into the society and they served as a support for the changes taking place within it. The infallible work of thinkers, writers, men of letters, amateurs and politicians was worth, and since the beginning of republicanism, the country was flooded with newspapers, papers, periodicals and magazines that give life to a country and preserve intact its cultural heritage that shapes the Venezuelan political thinking of 19th century.

Managing newspaper collections in public universities in Ghana

This study was to find out how state-owned or public universities in Ghana are managing their newspaper collections, from acquisition, processing, preservation to dissemination of newspaper information. The study was also to find out challenges encountered and offer recommendations. Data was collected from the eight public university libraries in Ghana using a questionnaire. Copies of the questionnaire were e-mailed to the libraries outside Accra whilst those in Accra were hand delivered. The study found that the numbers of newspapers acquired by the libraries vary but activities concerning their management were similar. The only method of preserving the collection was by binding. None of the libraries was digitizing their collection and it was only one library that adopted electronic means of indexing the newspaper information. All the activities undertaken by the libraries in managing their newspaper collections (except indexing done by one library electronically) were done manually. It is hoped that the findings will inform and encourage the libraries to pool together their efforts and resources to adopt modern methods of preservation (for example digitizing) and managing the newspaper information for easy accessibility.

Finding Edith Eaton

Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Maude has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic Eurasian voice countering yellow peril discourse through sympathetic literary representations of diasporic Chinese subjects. Eaton, a half-Chinese, half-English writer who wrote under variants of the pseudonym Sin is best known for Mrs. Spring Fragrance, her 1912 collection of Chinatown stories, and for the stories and uncollected journalism reissued in the 1995 collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings. Recent discoveries of unknown works by made by Martha J. Cutter, Dominika Ferens, and June Howard have begun to complicate our scholarly understanding of both her biography and her oeuvre. Late one night in 2006, I typed Eaton's name and her best-known pseudonyms (Sui Sin Far and Sui Seen Fah) into the search bar of Google Books. Instantly, a link came up (one that is, alas, no longer there) to a story signed Edith Eaton that appeared in the April 1909 issue of Bohemian Magazine. Alaska Widow is not mentioned in Ferens's detailed bibliography, in Annette White-Parks's biography, or in the collection White-Parks co-edited with Amy Ling. It is also uncharacteristic of Eaton's works. Unlike the stories collected in Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings, many of which are set in North American Chinatowns and/or feature Eurasian children, this story takes up the cultural dynamic produced by the Alaska gold rush and the Spanish-American War, and it features a child born to a Native American mother abandoned by a Caucasian adventurer father who later dies in the Philippines. Alaska Widow is also unlike most of the works published after 1898 in that it is signed Edith Eaton without any parenthetical reference to her pen name. Because Alaska Widow is so different from other works by Eaton, it made me wonder: How many other unknown stories by exist, and how might they challenge scholars' understanding of the author? In the years actively published (1888-1914), US print culture changed profoundly. The number of newspapers and periodicals quadrupled. While nascent mass newspapers cultivated advertising dollars by becoming politically neutral and purportedly objective, many periodicals marketed themselves to niche audiences organized by class, age, gender, aesthetics, vocation, and other categories. Together Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Ind Other Writings have made available to scholars only about fifty (mostly Chinatown-themed) publications by Eaton. My archival research, combined with contributions from other scholars, including Cutter, Ferens, and Howard, has uncovered nearly two hundred additional texts of diverse genres, themes, styles, and politics published in more than forty different Canadian, United States, and Jamaican periodicals between 1888 and 1914. (1) In her early career, between 1888 and 1896, placed signed poetry and fiction in small-circulation Montreal publications such as the Dominion Illustrated and Metropolitan Magazine. She also filed regular, unsigned journalistic contributions (primarily about Montreal's Chinatown) and sent impassioned letters to the editor (signing herself E. E.) about racist policies toward the Chinese in Canada to two local newspapers: the Montreal Daily Witness and Montreal Daily Star. In addition, she filed stories about smallpox outbreaks, fires, and murders from northern Ontario, where she worked as a stenographer from 1892 to 1893. Between 1896 and 1897 she wrote daily society and women's page news for Jamaica's Gall's Daily Newsletter. But recognized early on that it would be almost impossible to earn a living publishing fiction in Canada. In 1896, therefore, she began to submit Chinatown stories, signed Sui Seen Far, to periodicals in the United States--the fin de siecle little magazines Fly Leaf and Lotus, as well as the regional emigration magazine Land of Sunshine and popular magazine Short Stories. …

The Peril of Hasty Triumphalism and Osama bin Laden’s Death

On May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list.

Indian media representations of climate change in a threatened journalistic ecosystem

As 2010 unfolds, environmental journalism around the world is fraught with capacity challenges to collectively cover complex and dynamic stories at the human– environment interface. Recent years have seen significant reductions in journalistic ecosystem services. Examples abound: CNN slashed their entire science, technology, and environment reporting unit; the Seattle Post-Intelligencer discontinued their print run; the Los Angeles Times had cut their newsroom staff in half in the last dozen years; the Rocky Mountain News shuttered their doors altogether. It has been estimated that approximately 25% of the news industry’s workforce has been cut since 2001 (Pew 2009; Boykoff 2009). Concurrently, the number of newspapers that featured weekly science sections atrophied, losing nearly two-thirds in the past two decades (Pew 2009; Carroll 2006). In many places in the Global South, journalists continue to lack the capacity and training to cover the intricacies of climate science and policy, as well as lack access to clear, timely and understandable climate-related resources and images (Harbison 2006; Shanahan 2009). Journalists, editors, and organizations surviving newsroom cuts and shortfalls have been left to cover the contours of climate change along tighter deadlines, and with increased multi-platform demands (video, audio and text along with blogs, Twitter, Grogs (see www.getgrogger.com), YouTube postings etc). Moreover, in the name of efficiency, reporters increasingly cover a vast range of beats, making it as difficult as ever to satisfactorily portray the complexities of climate change. Put simply, journalists and editors striving for fair and accurate reporting are getting swamped by these larger scale pressures (Boykoff 2007). Yet in this perilous landscape, 2009 ended with soaring media coverage of climate change around the world. Climate news seemingly flooded the public arena. The

Unscientific America: how scientific illiteracy threatens our future

From two brilliant young authors - one a science journalist and the other a biologist - comes an impassioned polemic about the dangers of America's scientific illiteracy. In his famous 1959 Reith Lecture at Cambridge University, C.P Snow described science and the humanities as 'Two Cultures', separated by a 'vast gulf of mutual incomprehension.' The humanists were running government, he worried; the low prestige of science at the time meant that Western leaders, and the elites who surrounded them, saw little need to be educated in scientific subjects that were increasingly relevant to world problems: the elementary physics behind nuclear weapons, for instance, or the basics of plant science needed to feed the world's growing population. Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum offer a 'Two Cultures' polemic for the 21st century. Our gravest problems - climate change, the energy crisis, threats of global pandemics, nuclear proliferation - are scientific in nature. And yet for every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; 46 per cent of Americans believe that God, not evolution, created life on earth; the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from 95 to 34 since 1989; and the White House continues to argue that global warming is a theory, not a reality. Mooney and Kirshenbaum point fingers in both directions - both at the intellectual laziness of the American public (and particularly the politicians and media who are supposed to serve them) and at the scientists themselves, who due to both hyperspecialization and hubris have failed to communicate their work effectively to a broad public. Mooney cites examples such as the excommunication of Pluto as arrogant gestures that managed to turn into a nation of scientist-hating Pluto-sympathizers. Unscientific America is a cri de couer for enhanced scientific literacy. The authors describe how the scientific community has failed to exploit its growing importance; shows why science is losing out to religious and commercial propagandists in the public sphere, and urges that science must begin to train a small army of ambassadors who can translate its message and make it relevant to the media, to politicians, and to the American public. An impassioned call to arms worthy of Snow's original manifesto, this book tells us what must be done to reintegrate science into public discourse - before it is too late.